Thomas Creevey:

The Creevey Papers

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William Carr Beresford, viscount Beresford (1768-1854)

The illegitimate son of George de la Poer Beresford, earl of Tyrone, and later first marquess of Waterford; he was commander of the Portuguese forces in the Peninsular War, raised to the peerage in 1823. Thomas Creevey complained of his “damned bad manners, or rather none at all.” The illegitimate son of George de la Poer Beresford, earl of Tyrone, and later first marquess of Waterford; he was commander of the Portuguese forces in the Peninsular War, raised to the peerage in 1823. Thomas Creevey complained of his “damned bad manners, or rather none at all.”